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Universe: Jurassic Park
Debut: Jurassic Park (novel, 1990; film, 1993)
The tyrannosaurus rex is one of, if not the, most famous of all dinosaurs species. It was the largest of the tyrannosaur family, and by extension one of the largest theropods, reaching twelve metres in length. Commonly known as "t. rex," this infamous species lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in modern day North America and was therefore among one of the last non-avian dinosaurs. Like other tyrannosaurids, tyrannosaurus had very short arms with only two fingers. Although these were probably nearly useless while hunting, its jaws were not: tyrannosaurus has an enormous skull armed with teeth the size of bananas. Unlike the teeth of most theropods, the teeth of tyrannosaurids are very thick and capable of crushing bones. The skull and neck bones show that the t. rex had the largest neck muscles of any meat-eating dinosaur. It probably used its strong neck to twist and pull off big chunks of meat that it grasped with its jaws. The tyrannosaurus could bite with extremely strong force - one fossilized skeleton shows that it crushed and swallowed the bones of a smaller plant-eating dinosaur.
In Jurassic Park, the tyrannosaurus rex was brought back to life using blood from fossilized mosquitoes and was to be one of the main attractions at the park. But the dinosaur broke free of its enclosure and roamed around the park killing some of the visitors and staff it encounters.
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